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Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2013.04.18 16:32:00 -
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As someone who plays with 3rd party dev (Slowly) and helps to support EMDU for EMDR (Got it working on windows). I'm fairly saddened to see this happening. I use an extensive amount of market data pulled from cache files, dumped into my Spreadsheet of doom(tm), to deal with market orders, buying stuff from my corp membership etc. What I'm seeing here is a change in CCP's tone from "We want you all to play nice" to "We're going to make sure you're all playing nice in a manner that we approve as nice."
As someone who multiboxes 10+ accounts, and plays subs on them, I keep a close eye on the security team posts, as I'm a heavy isboxer user, though I avoid most of the features other than "Ooooh. Easy screen layout! Win!" Simply because I'd prefer not to run afoul of team security. I'm now concerned by the increasing tones of "We don't want possible cheating techniques to be available." Which is fine, but now you're starting to cut off more and more supplies of data, that 3rd party devs use, and are refusing to define what you consider to be cheating. Please keep in mind, that CCP continually pushes to have the player base sign up for more account (Power of two anyone?)
Also, the following wording is highly concerning to me: "2. You may not use your own or third-party software to modify any content appearing within the Game environment or change how the Game is played." According to this, we can't modify how the Game is played, but how do you want us to play the game? Are we to only play the game with one account at a time? Are we to play the game without any external tools to help us track jobs, manage accounts, track assets? By denying cache scraping officially, and in such a blunt manner, you've pretty much said, "Third party developers that explore out of our very, very limited API, are assisting users to play the game outside of how we want the game to be played" And that tone, is one that I really don't like to see. This game is unplayable for all intents and purposes without 3rd party developers, and I suspect, that's something that everyone here can agree with, on some level, simply because, the first day you join an alliance, and say "I'm new, where do I get started" You get slammed with 3rd party tools to make the game make more sense. |